Govanhill Community Cinema

Crowdmatch target reached!

Thank you everyone who has supported this project so far! Now that we have reached our initial target, Creative Scotland will no longer match your donations - but we still very much welcome your pledges of support! Our new stretch target of £12K will support the purchase of more equipment, helping us make film events more accessible and fun.

Who are we?

Glasgow Artists' Moving Image Studios (GAMIS) are a new organisation committed to supporting experimental and community-focused film programming in Govanhill. Our vision is to develop dedicated screening facilities, workspaces and professional support for artists working in moving image and other time-based practices. Our ultimate goal is to create a space that is used and loved by all parts of our local community, using film to share stories about ourselves with each other.

Image: Q+A from screening of Does Your House Have Lions?, Vishal Jugdeo, August 2022. Photo: Emma Dove / Cample Line

Why are we crowdfunding?

We are now working to develop new premises at the former Phoenix Furniture warehouse on Niddrie Road. We were lucky enough to be able to use it under temporary licence in August 2022 for the Govanhill Festival, and later in November 2022 and March 2023 for collaborative programmes with CinemaAttic, Invisible Women and local artists and curators, and are now negotiating a longer term lease so we can create a permanent cinema space in our neighbourhood.

The building has excellent potential, but will need a lot of work to make it comfortable and accessible for our whole community. We're currently fundraising to make improvements to our cinema to make the movie-going experience even more enjoyable for our local community in Govanhill.

Image: Audience from Govanhill International Festival, August 2022. Photo: Shireen Taylor.

How we'll spend the money raised

Over the years, GAMIS have been supported by many local volunteers, organisations and artists through their time, expertise and equipment. Our current cinema, including seats, projector, sound system and screen have all been kindly loaned to us by local people and organisations. We want to be able to build a better cinema with a high quality system which we can use more easily for our screenings and events. This means we can provide our community with a better quality space, ready for collaborative, high quality programming all year round.

The Target of £10,000 will go towards the following costs:

£3,500 towards portable surround sound speakers and cabling (we currently borrow this from a local artist for every screening!)

£2,500 towards a new mixing table and radio mics (mics are important for accessibility and we currently hire these out for each event)

£5,500 to cover some overheads including, space rental, storage and transport of the new equipment.

£500 contingency for inflation in equipment costs and production costs for your rewards.

If we exceed the target of £10,000, there are still plenty of costs your donations can support, including a contribution towards a new projector (We're currently using a domestic projector loaned to us by a very generous member of the community) and essential building improvements such as new doors and accessible toilets!

We have some great rewards for our donors, including limited editions from artists we have worked with, bespoke cinema experiences, dining experiences and of course POPCORN! we will also be announcing more rewards throughout the campaign, so make sure to sign up and follow our social media for updates.

Image: Audience from Tasty Projections mini film festival, November 2022. Photo: Erika Stevenson.

NEW REWARDS!

Unique Eco-Printed T-Shirts and Totes

WE BUILT A CINEMA tees and totes, printed by the fantastic Wild & Kind studio who specialise in sustainable printing, sourcing only sustainable garments and using eco-friendly print & embroidery processes.

T-shirts available in sizes XX Small to 5X Large, please email us if you want more info about measurements.

Special Edition Artists' Postcards

Local artists and filmmakers including Meray Diner, Margaret Salmon, Mina Heydari-Waite, George Finlay-Ramsay and Hanna Tuulikki have all donated an image of their work for a special A5 postcard limited edition. Sign up for updates as we announce more work by artists during the campaign.

New postcards added!

Image: MV Brown - still from HAUSEKATZE, 2021

Image: Production still from the film '17th April', a Romano Lav Youth Film Project 2022, by Meray Diner in collaboration with local Roma Youth. Photo: Ciaran Pasi / Romano Lav.

Image: Mina Heydari-Waite: 'In sleep it made itself present to them' from an exhibition of the same name held at Collective Gallery in 2021

Image: Still from the film 'Castoroscene', by George Finlay-Ramsay 2022. Screened by GAMIS as part of 'We See, Will See, Are Seen, Have Scene' for Govanhill Festival 2022.

Image: Still from the film 'Seals'kin', by Hanna Tuulikki 2022. Commissioned by the Bieniale of Sydney in 2022 and produced by GAMIS. We screened the UK premiere alongside a film programme curated by Hanna for Govanhill Festival 2022.

Image: Portrait of Maria Manuela from 'Ninna Nanna' by Margaret Salmon, which screened at the 'Bat Lab' for Govanhill International Festival and Carnival 2021.

Glasgow Supper Club dinner party

With a menu inspired by the food fight scene from the bonkers 1966 Czechoslovakian feminist surrealist comedy-drama, DAISIES, expect opulence, indulgence and technicolour on the plate!

Saturday 27th May, 7pm
Victoria House Studios (above Bar Vini)
Access: there is no step free access, VHS is up a single flight of steep stairs.

A great time to pledge your support

Our project is part of the 2023 Creative Scotland Crowdmatch competition. Creative Scotland will match individual pledges from the crowd up to £10,000. So if you donate £20 to our cause, your donation will be matched with a £20 pledge from Creative Scotland, effectively doubling* your donation!

*Creative Scotland will match all donations up to the value of £250 per individual donor.